Abhinaya does not display the peculiarities unique to FM radio hosts. Her performance lacks the whacky irreverence and tone of conspiratorial closeness, widely adopted by presenters today. She has shown that an RJ can be entertaining by just mouthing simple, but deeply felt and neatly framed poems.

While her self-crafted presentation style has ensured Abhinaya a steady flow of fan mail, the odds she has overcome in her personal life has earned her the respect of colleagues at Aahaa FM (91.9). Abhinaya is vision-impaired and comes from a nuclear family. Her father is a tailor and her mother, a home maker. Until Abhinaya started earning, the family struggled to make ends meet.

Many of her listeners have become her friends and unknowingly helped her become more outgoing. Actor Vijay has had a hand in building her self-confidence. “I used to slip into depression and was a loner, until I began to watch his films,”Her dream is to get him as a guest on her show says Abhinaya.

Hindu